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So when I had gotten some positive AB results in May/June including from a Red Cross blood donation, I tried to sign up to donate plasma. I never heard from them until just now to set up a time/date to donate plasma.

I was negative in late July for ABs as they had likely waned off to undetectable levels, so I likely won't be able to donate toward Covid patients but still gonna donate just to do it for other areas.

BUT I might get results that show I have low AB levels still present even if they're not high enough for using the plasma. Pretty curious to see if I find out anything.
 
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Meanwhile in the here and now. Saw this in the Star Tribune this morning. Interesting map graphic by county of risk of someone being covid positive in a gathering of 10 people.

"Peer-reviewed risk assessment data produced by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that many of those big events may become coronavirus super-spreaders. Drawing on public data sets, the Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool produces daily county-level estimates of the odds of encountering at least one coronavirus-positive person at a gathering of 10 or more people."

"At the project’s website, you can toggle some of these variables, such as event size and ascertainment bias, to see how they affect the risk of encountering an infected person in your area. This underscores a key caveat: These are estimates subject to a lot of variance, given all that we still don’t know about this virus and how it spreads. "

Article: Risk of the Coronavirus at large Thanksgivings gathers

Project Website: https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/

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Rabbuk said:
Is more red good? I'm bad at graphs.
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BoxsterCy said:
Meanwhile in the here and now. Saw this in the Star Tribune this morning. Interesting map graphic by county of risk of someone being covid positive in a gathering of 10 people.

"Peer-reviewed risk assessment data produced by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that many of those big events may become coronavirus super-spreaders. Drawing on public data sets, the Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool produces daily county-level estimates of the odds of encountering at least one coronavirus-positive person at a gathering of 10 or more people."

"At the project’s website, you can toggle some of these variables, such as event size and ascertainment bias, to see how they affect the risk of encountering an infected person in your area. This underscores a key caveat: These are estimates subject to a lot of variance, given all that we still don’t know about this virus and how it spreads. "

Article: Risk of the Coronavirus at large Thanksgivings gathers

Project Website: https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/

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Thanksgiving is definitely gonna bring the pain home for a lot of Iowans.
 
Did some yard work for a neighbor yesterday. Lady comes out to pay me gives me the money, then proceeds to tell me that her and her husband both COVID!! I had gloves on, was 6’ if not further away, and was upwind of her. I was just dumbfounded by it. We wonder why it spreads!!
 
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cycloner29 said:
Did some yard work for a neighbor yesterday. Lady comes out to pay me gives me the money, then proceeds to tell me that her and her husband both COVID!! I had gloves on, was 6’ if not further away, and was upwind of her. I was just dumbfounded by it. We wonder why it spreads!!
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I was on a walk yesterday and two women behind me were walking together, side by side, both talking very loudly, maskless. I could hear them talking about some person they heard about on the news who was 29, healthy et al. and ended up in the hospital for a week. Then one says: 'I wonder how she got it'.

It was pretty remarkable.
 
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